Free Proposed Jury Instructions - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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Tempe City Attorney's Office 21 East Sixth Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 5002 Tempe, Arizona 85280

TEMPE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE MARLENE A. PONTRELLI, #016980 JANIS L. BLADINE, #018244 KARA L. STANEK, #020161 21 E. Sixth Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 5002 Tempe, Arizona 85280 Phone: (480) 350-8227 Fax: (480) 350-8645 Attorneys for Defendant IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA CRAIG TUCKER, No. CV 03-1425 PHX DGC Plaintiff, v. THE CITY OF TEMPE, Defendant. DEFENDANT TEMPE'S PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE JURY INSTRUCTIONS

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Defendant City of Tempe ("Tempe") submits the following Proposed Revisions to the Jury Instructions Suggested by the Court. Specifically, Tempe proposes to: (1) Revise the Public Employee Speech Instruction to reflect the most recent U.S.

Supreme Court decision on the definition of "public concern" (attached); (2) Insert Ninth Circuit Model Instruction Section 15.4 entitled "Work as a Major Life

Activity" (attached); (3) Retain the Court's suggested Section 15.8 entitled "Reasonable Accommodation"

(in lieu of Plaintiff's Proposed Instruction); (4) Insert Tempe's Proposed Instruction entitled "The ADA Interactive Process for a

Reasonable Accommodation" which was agreed upon by Plaintiff as well (attached); (5) Insert Tempe's Proposed Instruction entitled "No Accommodation Owed for

`Regarded As' Disability" (attached);

Case 2:03-cv-01425-DGC

Document 43

Filed 12/02/2005

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Tempe City Attorney's Office 21 East Sixth Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 5002 Tempe, Arizona 85280

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Should the Court desire to insert an instruction regarding Due Process, insert

Tempe's Proposed Instruction entitled "Due Process" (attached); (7) Utilize the form of verdict stipulated to by Plaintiff and Tempe. DATED this 2nd day of December, 2005. TEMPE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

/s/ Marlene A. Pontrelli Marlene A. Pontrelli Janis L. Bladine Kara L. Stanek 21 E. Sixth Street, Suite 201 P.O. Box 5002 Tempe, Arizona 85280 Attorneys for Defendant

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on December 2, 2005, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants: Stephen G. Montoya MONTOYA JIMENEZ, P.A. 3200 N. Central Avenue, Suite 2550 Phoenix, AZ 85012 Attorney for Plaintiff I further certify that on December 2, 2005, the attached document was hand delivered to: HONORABLE DAVID G. CAMPBELL United States District Court Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse, Suite 623 401 W. Washington Street, SPC 58 Phoenix, AZ 85003

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